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The Myngle founding team consists of: |
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Marina Tognetti (founder) – CEO/ marketing: 18 years of professional experience in consumer goods marketing and business development by Procter & Gamble, Philips, Sara Lee; strategy consulting by the Boston Consulting Group and e-commerce/technology by eBay. Marina lived and worked in Italy, France and the Netherlands and has an MBA from INSEAD.
Marina in her own words |
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Egbert van Keulen (partner) – COO/Business development global: 13 years of professional experience in sales, business development and marketing. Entrepreneur in start-up for online photo printing & album sharing; eBay, Colorwonder, Royal Dutch Mint, Kijkshop B.V. International sales Management in Asia, Europe, North America. Specialist in internet & communities, formerly responsible for eBay.nl as manager operations.
Egbert in his own words |
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Danilo Da Silva (partner) – CTO: experienced in web development roles, open source technology, and new media. Former manager of instruction at Berlitz. An active Web2.0 participant and blogger, has developed several blogs and community websites and has 2 bachelors degrees cum laude in Psychology and Sociology from the university of Missouri-Columbia |
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Valter Stoiani (partner) – Advisor, Biz. Dev. Brazil: 18 years of professional experience in business development, finance and language instruction in US, Asia, South America. Worked for Berlitz, ABN AMRO Bank, Enron; entrepreneur in a trading start-up. MBA from INSEAD.
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Sales/Business development Team |
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Stefan Booy – Business Development USA + Head of Education: (moved to USA October 2009) Stefan has 8+ years of experiences in education management, manufacturing, and social work in the United States and Holland; amongst others Resident Director at John Brown University and vice-principal high school division Little Rock (Arkansas, USA). Lived, studied and worked in Holland, Italy and the USA. MBA at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. |
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Maarten Pieters – Business Development Europe: Maarten has 5+ years experience in Sales and Business Development in technology, hospitality, events and recruitment industries, as well as experience in (language) training & coaching; Huxley Associates, Tues Communication & Language Institute, Europe Unlimited. Lived, studied and worked in the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and France. Bachelor of Business Administration in Hospitality Management at Hoge Hotelschool Maastricht |
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Arnab Bose – Business Development India: Arnab has 4+ years in Global Business Services by IBM India, growing in different functions of development training up to Deputy Manager in Quality, responsible for the team of trainers and all the quality aspects (training for 3000+ people). Awarded several certificates for excellence in training. MBA at Amsterdam Business School Amsterdam, Netherlands; Masters in Economics New Delhi, India |
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Marketing/Customer care team: |
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Astrid Huijssoon– Internet Marketing: Astrid has a cum laude Master degree in Business Studies with a specialty in marketing and working experience at Sanoma Uitgevers working for the websites Vrouwonline and SchoolBANK. While living and studying in Spain she obtained the DELE exam. |
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Panos Anagnostopoulos – Activation: 7 years entrepreneur in family business for sport brands distribution; from managing sales team of 5 to expanding distribution network to over 2.000 business customers in Greece. BSc in Economics at University of Piraeus in Greece, MSc in Marketing at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK |
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Guillermo Gonzales – Customer Care & retention: 10 years experience as entrepreneur in different start-ups in the music industry, as well as project and sales manager functions (Future Music Group, Decoder Muzique, Softly Limited, Virgin Entertainment Group). Freelance copywriter and translator (Time Out, Pulse Guides, Speak Up). US citizen, has lived and worked in Spain and Netherlands. University of Florida: communications Major |
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Aneliya Koleva –– Internet Marketing/Business Development:
Starting as Business Development intern, now she is responsible for Myngle Academies and Affiliate System. She is in her last year of International Business and Management Program, specializing in Finance in The Hague University. Aneliya spent one semester of her studies in Madrid, Spain with Erasmus program |
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Steven Vledder – Internet Marketing: Steven Vledder has been active as a Marketing intern and is now in the process of writing his thesis on the subject of target group analysis. He's in his last year of International Business and Languages studies and hopes to graduate this summer. Steven had one semester of studies abroad at the IDRAC school of business in Lyon, France. He has a real passion for languages and speaks 5 languages varying from an advanced to a pre-intermediate level and is now working on his 6th |
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Technology team |
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Steve Redshaw – Senior programmer: 11 years of experience, specializing in content and learning management systems. Previously he worked for one of the world's first online language school sites in Spain and at Razorfish in England, Norway and Holland on sites for Vodafone, Thomas Cook, Den Norske Bank, Nissan and Funda. He has also programmed many online games for sites such as IPC's Mousebreaker |
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Offshore: most programming done offshore with Ndex in Vietnam |
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Education support team |
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Hala El-khawanky - Education assistant & teacher in Myngle : Hala started working in education 6 years ago, teaching online and offline. She is language supervisor in of the biggest language centers in Cairo. She developed her own text book to teach Arabic for non speakers. |
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Soaad Sahmeg – Education assistant & teacher on Myngle : Soaad has studied English and Arabic language in the University and has been working as an Arabic and English teacher offline and online for 4+ years |
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Accounting |
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Pascal Van Baren – Accounting and financial assistant : Masters student in Business Administrations(specialty Strategy & Organization), worked for a Consultancy firm in Amsterdam called Fairlane, speaks: English, French, German, Japanese and Turkish |
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Interns: |
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Aenn Schmidtke – Marketing team: 3rd year student of International Business and Languages at Saxion Hogeschool, Enschede, The Netherlands. Aenn has completed a semester abroad at ESDES school in Lyon,France with Erasmus programs and has also done a high school year in Minnesota,USA.She currently speaks 5 languages. |
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Qian Zhang – Marketing team: Qian is a final year student at the Hogeschool voor Economische Studies (HES) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She majors in IBMS (International Business and Management Studies), before started working at Myngle, she worked for customer relationship department of several companies in hospitality industries. |
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Ranbir Grewal – Customer care: International Business & Management Studies (IBMS), final year, has a VBO-Administration and MBO-Marketing & Communication diploma, has been an intern for ANDREO BV (Accountancy Office), at ADMINISTRATIE KANTOOR THOMAS (AKT, Accountancy Office and at STARFLEX (Recruitment Agency) and at ROC ASA WEST (Diploma College) |
